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THE MORNING QUIDNUNC: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1888. Proper Advertising. The system of booming a town through Protection. In England every branch of industry Monumental Lying. A ropy of tho Atlantic, Iowa, Tele More School.

Superintendent Hitchcock has two pet ODDN.AND BHDI, Garden City Sentinel Speaking of Goto BOOK STORE For vour Books, Statiouey anil School Supplies. Subscriptions and renewals received lor all Daily and Weekly Papers and Magazines. UNDER WOODS' OPERA HOUSE. foreign newspapers is becoming entirely too prevalent. It is well known that the average sketches written are for the money there is iu them and not with the expectation of doing the country much good.

If all the money which is spent for the ''write ups" in foreign papers were put into subscriptions to local newspapers to be sent to the libraries, reading rooms, to the principal hotels, to eyery place where they are likely to be read, the advantage derived would be ten times as much as tha coming from all the puffs written by paid writers imported for the purpose. There is an aroma of truth in the writing of a man who has to stay in the country to back what he says, which is not found in the letters of the boomer, and this is as easily recognized by the eastern reader as it is by those familiar with the country written up. Give a liberal and hearty support to the home journals, and the foreign boomers will not be needed Center Times. One great difficulty in the way of the spread of true Christianity in this day and age is theology. There is too much of an opinion that the church is infalli ble or rather that a particular church is Men and women become wedded to a church and pin their faith in eternal salvation in their belief in an adherence to the peculiar dogmas of that church.

Theology at best is but a science. Chris tianity is divine, theology is human. It makes hut little difference whether a man belongs to this church or that church or indeed it he belongs to none, so he is governed in his life and his actions by the truth taught in the Bible and has a genuine inspiring faith in Christ as his Saviour. Churches are well enough but they are controlled altogether too much by the maintenance of certain dogmas which have no more reason for being counted as infallible than so many political dogmas. Truth in any form is immutable but man's opinions of truth have no sacredntss because man is fallible and fully as apt to be in error as to be in the right.

Revival Closed. The revival recently reported from Mount Zion closed on the 29th ult, last Sunday. There were twenty-hve converts, and eighteen added to the church. Five backslidern renewed. Eleyen of the converts were baptized by Elder W.

W. Durham on Sunday, alter cutting through thick ice. The scene was very interesting and solemn as witnessed by a very large audience. There are six awaiting the ordinance and more to follow. Reported by an EyeWitness.

If good photograpns are what you desire let J. C. Kimsey take them foryon Over Philips house. The finest California Prunes in the market at C. A.

Hall's. Now I the Opportttmlry, We have 25 felt hats trimmed in feathers and tips to be sold at $1 each. Cordell Dodson. Anthracite coal, best quality, $14 per ton at F. Stipp.

Coal! Coall A good supply of Cojnon City, Osage, Pittsburg, Illinois and Anthracite on hand. F. A. Stipp. The finest Dried Fruits in the city at C.

A. Hall's. C. A. Hall has got the best flour i an for less money than anyone ia the iy.

Anthracite coal $14 a. ton at Willis folka Sixteen pounds New Prunes for $1.09 atC. A. Hall's. Go To Kimsey', For photographs.

Best in the city, Gallery over Phillips house. Trade with C. A. Hall. Fine Salt Lake Potatoes at C.

A. Hall's. Fine Furniture. Of all kinds. Quantities and prices to suit everybody.

Also Weather Strips for doors aad windows. Special prices on bed-lounges at C. F. LUENING. Meats, Fresh Celery, Fish and Oysteri.

All kinds of Meats and Poultry Xrtk tvsryday. Cash Paid for Hides. Knowles Garland. K.P.VE Y0K A SON, do nil kinds of Gas Fitting Plumbing, and repairing, on short notice, also flfc ting and repairing of all kind of pumps, at 112 east Lincoln Avenue. itions for new school districts.

One from near Caldwoll and one In Harmon township. 1 Cattle In the Territory. Mr. Joe Miller, of Winfleld, stopped oyer in the city yesterday. He says out of 3,000 head of cattle he has in the Ter ritory he has lost none.

He has shipped 8,000 and has had good luck. Thank. The V. M. C.

A. desire to tender their warmest thanks to the young ladies of the Baptist church for their generous and encrgeti efforts to aid the associa tion, by the supper on Wednesday evening. City Printing. The Leavenworth Times discusses the letting of the tity printing in that city. It makes the assertion that "Wichita pay ten cents a line to the papers which have done so much for the success of that vigorous city.

Bought Property. It is understood that the Episcopal society of this city have bought the old third ward school house. They will oc cupy it where it stands for the next ninety days, when they expect to move it on to their own lots and fix it up. It will make them a comfortable place of worship. Funeral Service.

Mrs. Stella Beckmen died at 4 a. m. on Thursday, at her residence over 217 South Washington. Mrs.

Beckmen was a sister of Mrs. W. F. GatliK who died a week ago, and like her sister leaves a little babe only a week old. The funeral will be from the Christian church at 10 o'clock this morning.

Capt. Kennedy. The ex-salvation army captain is at the present conducting a series of meetings in the Bill Williams school house in South Haven township. His friends re port that there have been sixty-five conversions within a few days, and that the doughty captain is making a sort of Sam Jones sensation in the region where he is operating. Heard From.

Mr. George Fultz has been heard from through an interesting letter from Concord, N. where ho arrived safely, Mr. Fultz writes that he is enjoying a genuine New England snow st6nn. Snow two feet deep and a mountain blizzard far superior in severity to any which eyer sweeps over the fertile and happy plains of sunny Kansas.

Rowdyism, It is reported to us by one of our townsman who has just come from a visit to the charming little city of Geuda Borings, that just now that city is over run with a lot of hoodlums from Anthony, who are dodging the grand jury on account of the election troubles and that these parties are having a pic-nic and a pretty general drunk. A Sngar Mill at Garden City. Judge Parkinson and Prof. Swenson have been to Garden City accompanied by a representative of a syndicate of Boston capitalists, and after looking over the ground accepted a proposition from Garden City, to locate here one of the three sugar plants to be erected in Kansas this season. The plant will cost $120,000 and will have a capacity to work up three hundred tons of cane per day.

Democratic Misdeed. The examination into the public printing in Washington is developing the very meanest of partisan discrimination by the Democrats against ex-Union soldiers who have held oifico. The resolution of investigation mado the incompetent head of the government printing ffice mad and he has been wielding the axe unsparingly against old soldiers and their children who were in the employ of his department, and this in the mid die of winter, to fill their places with confederates. Brotherly Love. The Quid-Nunc spoko yesterday morning of the new Methodist Sabbath school which has been formed, and the kind offer made them by the Baptist brethren of the use of their church for the present.

We have learned since that the same offer was mado by the brethren of the Christian church, and it was hard to decide which to accept. The Baptist offer was accepted with a full appreciation of the generosity of the Christian church, because it was thought by a majority of tho school that the former church was so centrally situated that it would best accomodate the scholars. Willis Pol ff. Willis Folks is a most energetic and popular coal dealer and works hard to please the public with good coal at the most reasonable priees possible. He keeps all the various kinds of coal which can be obtained for this market in good supply Owing to the opening of tho Santa Fe railroad to Canon City, direct communl cation is made with that great coal dis trict and the Canon City coal which is the yer.y best coal brought here will lie mado a specialty of In Mr.

Folks' trade, He also keeps on band a good supply of Anthracite, Pittsburg, Semi-Anthracite, Osage and Illinois coal. When the read ers of tho Quid-Nunc want good coal let them give their orders to Willis Folks. climate, if California or Florida or Italy or the Isles of Greece can show more beautiful weather than Southwest Kansas has enjoyed for ten days past we should like to hear of it. We can't imagine it. The Kansas Methodist Chatanqua.

a paper published in Topeka, says: "Whenever a bishop, editor, secretary, book-agent, presiding elder, pastor or any other man begins to indicate that he things the Methodist church belongs to him, it is time to have a change in the case of such incumbent." Peoria Journal: The salvation army is still hammering away at the ramparts of sin. They do not appear to be making much headway but are keeping up the war dance every night just the same. They are a persevering tribe, these salvation soldiers. They go in and toot their horn whether they sell a claim or not. A proposition is made to amend the constitution so as to substitute the 31st day of December for the 4th day of March as the commencement and term- ina of the official term of members of the house of representatives and providing that congress shall hold its annual meeting on the first Monday in January.

It seems likely that the proposition will meet with favorable action by the present congress. Sterling Gazette: Hard times in Kan sas are more of a by word of the past than a feature oj the present. There is a class of people who see hard times in Kansas, but they are a class who would find hard times in heaven if they were ever fortunate enough to get thero, We mean the class who come to Kansas without brains, money or anything else in the line of and expect to strike a "soft snap" and make lots of money. Commonwealth: The free trader shouts "Remove the wool tariff, so as to reduce the price of wool." In the next breath ho shouts "The tariff does not increase the price of anything the fanner has to sell." Again, he shouts: ''The tariff on wool is a tribute paid by other classes to the farmer who raises wool." Again, he shouts: "The farmer sells his wool at less price with the tar iff than it would bring with one. Hold on, shouter, till we get our breath and know which of your stories we shall "tie Globe-Democrat: It is announced that tho Fisheries Commission is about to close its labors and declare that it cannot come to any definite conclusion.

This result was generally anticipated from the beginning, and nobody will be surprised to hear that the Admiuistra tion has again failed in one of its pom pous and picturesque attempts to usurp the power and override the action of the legislative branch of government. Con gress provided a plan for the prompt and effective adjustment of the dispute with Canada and the 1 whole matter would have been settled long ago if Messrs. Cleveland and Bayard had duti fully enforced the law. Spearyille Blade: A sick and disgust ed lot of passengers were on tho east- bound train Wednesday, returning from their trip to California. They were very much surprised at the fine appearance of this part of the country and one man declared that this was a far better look ing town than Los Angeles.

It must be an ill wind, indeed, that blows nobody any good. Who knows but that, after all, the great to-do about' the golden state, that has carried so many past our doors in the night time, will be of some little benefit to us, by bringing at leant a few back over this part of the road in daylight and permit their seeing what a beautiful country we really have. -m The Way It Should Be. The county printing in Edwards coun ty was given to the Kinsley Mercmy at legal rates. The board of commission ers were very sensible in doing this.

always has seemed to us to be a very great mistake to cut down the county printing from what the law gives. News papers do more for a city or county than any other element in the commun ity. The meagre support they receive barely keeps them aliye; we venture the assertion that there is not a county in Kansas that tho people have ever peti tioncd the county commissioners to cut down the legal rates for printing. Yet, in many counties we find the commission ers doing this. It is unwise, unjust and not called for by the tax payers.

Kansas people are not niggardly, and they support more newspapers than any other state in the Union, according to the population. The trilling amount the county board pays would not increase any man's taxes one cent on $1,000, but to the printer it would aid largely to make IiIb paper much better, and more creditable to the county. The Mercury is a good, live paper, made so by a live people who don't stop to split hairs over a nicklc Great SendlTribune. E. H.

Deitrich, John Carr, of Oxford James Vorhees, of Riverdale: P. Wells, of Mayfield; R. G. Jackson, of Hunnewoll; 8. S.

Mounts, of Belle Plaine Dr. Fitzhugh, of 70; W. F. Aubrey and A. Guyson, of Avon; and John Ware from south part of the county, wore citizens of Sumnor county who were noticed by our reporter as on the streets of Wellington yesterday.

Y.M. C.A. The Y. M. C.

A. having just put up a new and very attractive sign la front of their room. has been supervised with great care and has been reported upon every year to parliament. Theyhavo there a commissioner, who is called a commissioner to inquire into the operations of the mining districts under an act of parlia ment, That commissioner, then one of the ablest men in tho British government, made a report several years ago from which we make an extract. He says: "I believe that the laboring classes generally in the manufacturing districts are very little aware of the extent to which they are often indebted for their being employed at all, to the immense losses their employers voluntarily incur in had times, in order to destroy foreign competition and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets.

Authentic instances are well known of employers ha ving, in such times, carried on their works at a loss amounting in the aggre gate to three or four hundred thousand pounds in the course of as many years. If the efforts of those who encourage the combinations to restrict the amount of labor and produce strikes were to be successful for any length of time, the great accumulation of capital could no longer be made, which enablo a few of the most wealthy capitalists to overwhelm all foreign competition in times of great de pression, and thus to clear the way for the whole trade to step in when the prices revive, and to carry on a great business before foreign capital can again accumulate to such an extent as to be able to establish a competition in prices with any chances of success, The large capitals of this country are the great instruments of warfare, if the expression may be allowed, against the competing capital of foreign countries, and are the most essential instruments now remaining by which our manufac turing supremacy can be" maintained; the other elements cheap labor, abundance of raw material, easy means of communication and skilled labor, bring rapidly in progress of being equalized-." The report from which we have made this extract was presented to both houses of parliament by command of the Queen. Here we have the system publicly avewed which they use to the extent of millions of dollars, to break down in times of depressions, the man ufacturing interests of the United States and we see how they interfere in every way to keep tho markets in their hands and under their control. This cunning and insidious policy and legislation of England seems not to be very critically examined by the advocates of free trade in this country. When England repeal ed her corn laws which prohibited the introduction or rather imposed a pro hibitingduty upon the grains of other countries, she adopted a more stringent protective policy.

This country at that time had noth ing with which she could compete with England, her greatest rival in manufactures, except in. cheapness of food. In labor, iu capital and in every thing else England was at that time far ahead of us, hut we had the advantage of. having cheaper food, a small advantage to be- sure. England saw this and in order that her manufacturers should hayethe advantage in everything she took off her duty upon foreign grains and let in foreign grains from the Baltic, the continent and from neighboring nations Hence she took away in a great measure, the only, advantage her only great rival had in manufactures.

Was that not a protective enactment? Certainly it was; and yet one-half the world call it free trade. Some of our people who seem not to have given the subject searching thought Call it free trade Justice to the labor of our country re quires a discrimination in favor of the products of our own country, and es penally of those in which we possess nat ural advantages. It is in this way only that, we can guard our industries against the unjust competition of foreign capital and for eign legislation. Organize, It is of the very last importance that every Republicnas who believes that the principles he has always supported are as true as ever and who thinks they can bo better supported, and better administered in the government by their constant friends than by their bitter ene mies, should be stirring himself now into active effort for the success of the lie publican party in the year 1888. Thero is no manner of question that a large majority of the voters of the United Sta tes are on the Republican side and desire the success of the Republican candidates and the defeat of the Democratic nominees.

Now this desired result can only lie brought about by the most thorough organization. An organization which means tho bringing of the truth of the sitaution home to every yoter and the ultimate bringing of every voter to the polls. It means also the harmonizing of all party differences, the suppression of all potty nnd personal jealousies, nnd above all the determined rejection of all unwise and foolish nominations and tho selection of the purest and most spotless character and of known ability and political fidelity, hence the strongest men in the party as candidates from president down to constable C. A. Hall defies competities.

February Coal, Willis Folks. February Coal, Willis Folks. February Coal, Willis Vwlks. February Coal. Willis Flks.

February Coal, Willis Fflks, graph has lcen handed us containing- a letter written to it by V. C. Whipp, from Ackley, Ottawa county, Kansas. This letter has so pany lies in it, Unit wo have deterininl to contradict it, V. C.

Whipp is a preacher from Illinois, and when a preacher does get down to lying he can beat the father of liars. We happen to know this man and his record, and have no hesitancy in calling him an unscroupulous liar. The letter is dated January 20th, and is as follows: "Editor Telegraph Too cold to be out to-day. Turned cold in a giffy yesterday, and the wind is coming from the north to-day with icicles on its wings. The weather has leeu colder of late than has ever been known by oldest settlers, registered 35 below zero.

But we have no deaths by freezing to report, The suffering has been mostly confined to noses, ears, fingers and toes. Ye writer and family have got along without freezing so far thanks to green elm wood, cow chips and a little coal. Corn at from fifty to fifty-five cents per bush el, does very well for those who have money, but the want of that necessary article will cause many a man and horse to go hungry beforo another crop can be raised. We are hoping for better times in the future, and we think if we can get some smart Yankee to invent a har poon to kill land sharks with, aud col lect the mortgages and have them ground over and made into fools cap paper, we think that there would bo a chanco for Kansas once more to start outright, and we would have paper to run our common schools for some time to come." V. C.

Whipp. We' presume tho Ottawa county pa pers will deal with this fellow as lie de serves. As for the people of that sec tion they ought to bring him to account, Ackley is about 100 miles nearly due west of Topeka, and about 120 miles duo north of Wellington, and Ottawa county is a good county, though small; it has a population of 15,000 and over, and in 1880 raised nearly 2,000,000 bushels of corn besides other crops, Like many of the counties in Central Kansas, and in fact all the great com belt in Kansas as well as Illinois, Mis souri, Iowa and Indiana, their crop the past year was a comparative failure, but tho fact that this cereal can be bought there for fifty cents a bushel as Mr, Whipp states, is evidence that there is no very great scarcity. As for the extreme cold this Whipp tells about, we believe this story to be untrue. We do not believe there is a place in Kansas where a correct ther moineter has registered 20 below zero this winter.

The weather record in Wellington on tho 19th of January, the day he records as so cold, the tempera ture at this point as recorded by the signal service reporter here, was ns fol lows; At 7 a. 10 above; at 2 p. 28 and at p. 11. On the 20th the report was at 7 a.

2, at 2 p. 0 and at p. 2. On the 2rth at 7 p. 23, 2 p.

at p.m., 38- No fair man will believe there was a difference of 03, or even 45 in the temperature, with only about 100 miles differ ence in latitude. Neither do we imagine that the people of Ottawa county, a county in one of the very best parts of Kansas, will take kindly to the circulation of the report that they are dependent upon the burn' ing of cow chips to keep them from freezing. It is time that such monumental liars as this preacher Whipp and all other disgruntled folks who have become dis satisfied because they have not met with the good fortune tney anticipated in their first year in Kansas, were sup pressed. Let them go back to Illinois where they camo from and where the mercury gets down to 40 and over, and not stay here to circulate false reports about Kansas. What Kama Might Do.

A current item, says tho Kansas City Star, which has appeared in nearly all of the newspapers of Kansas is to the effect that not more than one-half of the dairy products consumed by that state are produced within her borders. Following close upon this statement the singular fact is noted that Kansas, which annually raises millions of bushels of corn, consumes thousands of cans of that cereal which is put up in Maine a state which docs not produce one bushel of corn whero Kansas raises five thousand. This shows a condition of affairs in that state for which there is absolutely no apology, Carrying coals to Newcastle would be a thoroughly logical proceeding compared with the importation of butter, checso und corn ipto a state which ranks among the first in its grazing facilities and its splondid agricultural resources. The fault lies with the poople, and it must bo speedily corrected if Kansas expects to make the best of her great possibilities. The failure of the.

farmers of that state to properly utilize tho opportunities which the soil and climate offer for diversified husbandry is one of thoso perplexing enigmas which seem to defy solution. Almost all of tho smaller channels of profit seem to be neglected In the zoal for extensive fanning which seems to possess tho tillers of tho Boil. Tho result is that vast sums of money annually go out of tho state for commodities which Kansas should produce in the grea test abundance, and prosperity Is hindered by this perversion of economic principles, Webster. Livery Sale and Feel Stable, NEW RIGS, GOOD ROADSTERS 1 BALED HAY By fhe Car-load Ton or at Retail, Delivered to any part the city. Telephone, No.

49. Best care taken of Boarding Horses. SHOE STORE. I handle Boots, Shoes and Kubbers exclusively. Carry everything in that line from the cheapest to the very finest, and have a stoak from which to select equal to that of larger cities.

I will save you money on Boots and hoes. Uome and see. Uoin pari ion tells. Lee W. Campbell.

THE QUID NUNC. WELLS COREY, -W. E. 8. Tbaughber, Editor Local Editor, Weather Probabilities.

The weather forecasts are taken at 7d. the evening previous, and apply twenty-four noun in auvance, ujr jonn 11, woue. Weather: Cloudy and decreasing at- mosperic moisture. Temperature: Slightly lower. Winds: Southeast.

Synopsis for past 24 hours. Tempera ture at 7 a.m., GO: 2 p. m. 53; (5 p. m.

S2 Weather cloudy with light rains. RMinlall: 0.10 inches. PERSONALS. Will Rinehart and wife were in the city yesterday. Joe Palmer, of 7(5, was trading in town yesterday.

Mr. E. C. Ferguson is recovering from his sick spell. Dr.

Stone had a narrow miss from a runnaway yesterday. Claude Sanders is making a visit at home, from school at Winfield. W. D. McKinstry has gone tollmnne- well to invoice a stock of goods for A.J.

Bowers. Geo.W. Fahs and Chos. F. Adair, two Conway Springs gentlemen, were in the city yesterday.

Mr. Stone one of the substantial farmers of this county was taking in city ways jesterday. The Misses Shrader receivod a telegram yesterday announcing the death of their brother at Garden City. W. A.

Maxey and wife were made happy yesterday by the receipt at theii house of a beautiful baby girl. Mrs. Price, of Anthony, is in the city visiting her son and daughter, Mr. Fletcher and Miss Bertha Price. Joe Dodson was, having a legal twist yesterday with Wm.

Kimmel, of Rome, over some commissions on a land trade Sam Trowbridge was in town yester day from his stock farm, He reports all his stock, horses and cattle, as doing ex tiaordhrarily well. D. C. McKinnon, general agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Companv, of New York, for this state, is down from Wich ita looking after business. E.

L. Plank, of Harmon township, W. M. Kincaid. of South Haven, and M.

Barnard, of Downs, weac among the coumty people transacting business in the county seat yesterday. Al Hirons, with bis usual energy, secured 20 yesterday in subscription for the needy of the western counties of this state. If all the rest who were soliciting did so well there was a goodly sum rais ed. J. N.

McCarty, who lives on east Lincoln avenue, is reported as wing so elevated in his feelings and his pride by the advent of a 13 pound boy to inherit his name and chattels, that he will not notice common nuraanity. Dr. Heath did the honors of the occasion. M. R.

Jackson has lust returned from Ashland, Clarke county. He says there is some suffering in that county, the county being new and homesteaders not orcnared for the dry season last year. The statement made of the help needed by these persons is true, but it is true that liberal aid Is be tog rendered by Kansas people as last as possible, 9 0RTMAN'8 BAKERY I State National Bank building oaLlnaolev Avenue is the plaee to buy llrit-elasa Brend of all kinds, also Pie Cakes, Cookies, Buns, st. ia Great Variety. CAKES MADE TO ORDER,.